This post is about 8 years of my journey from the end of my PhD until the beginning of CS faculty life. I hope it is a little helpful for someone, particularly CS PhD students and postdocs, to pursue their research career.

Gearing up for a postdoc

After finishing my 3-year PhD in Japan in March 2012, Europe was the obvious choice to start my postdoc, because I spent a wonderful time during intern at Nokia in Finland and visitor at UCL, 6 month each. At that time I didn’t think about my career seriously; I just wanted to do research with good people. I…